Bad Headers Added to John Young postings via owner-cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com
Hi! The following headers are from a posting by John Young that looks like it was sent to cypherpunks@toad.com, forwarded to cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com and/or cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, and has the Reply-To: header set to reply to cypherpunks@toad.com instead of to John Young.... It looks like the obvious implementation of cypherpunks-style mail header patching, but isn't quite right..... Leads to people sending their John Young mailbot requests to cypherpunks@toad.com instead, as some well-known cypherpunks have mistakenly done recently :-) ===================================================== Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com> X-Sender: jya@pop.pipeline.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 09:04:14 -0500 To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Subject: FBI_100 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com X-List: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net 2-15-97. NYP: "Phone Companies Balk At Latest Plan by FBI." Markoff. ============================================== # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- on or about 970216:1241 Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> said: +Hi! The following headers are from a posting by John Young that looks +like it was sent to cypherpunks@toad.com, +forwarded to cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com and/or +cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, and has the Reply-To: header +set to reply to cypherpunks@toad.com instead of to John Young.... It +looks like the obvious implementation of cypherpunks-style mail header +patching, but isn't quite right..... Leads to people sending their +John Young mailbot requests to cypherpunks@toad.com instead, as some +well-known cypherpunks have mistakenly done recently :-) this is what Lance said he would do... until toad.com shuts down, you address all messages to cypherpunks@toad.com to avoid overlap. toad.com was never set up to show cypherpunks@road.com in the "Reply-To: " field, but it should have been. mailing lists then have the "From: " field from the original sender, and the "Reply-To: " to the list. Now, there are reasons some list operators do not change the reply field --usually in the hope any responders will not notice the list is not being copied....in just turns into private mail. for the almost 20 years I been playing with mail lists of various sorts starting with simple inbound scoop and explode to list, Lance's convention has been the norm. attila gone... ___________________________________________________________attila_____ "A man owns an ass; he can vote. The ass dies; he cannot vote. Who owns the vote?" --Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBMwgLQb04kQrCC2kFAQGUuwP9HGqFFjxWRkTnkN9+Y2AnCErsRtTwYJpL RpKfsz3fJ89xr5qt18EXqt768ZvFclw2ipsdy50FIUSmHqPx+SkZykcTqn/yspX1 B9+HdKE3fYhZNPqwVftX+AEX6ZLYJNlZ1rfak1qaL1ROw164JZR86J4Ik7TiUJZV FBWxiJ85b6A= =gBiw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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